Weekend Links  8.8.10

A high school history teaches asks New York state to Fix the Regents’ Exams . ”The correlation between increased passing rates and the increasingly content-free nature of the exams is,” he argues, “hard to miss.”

An English government study says that marriage counselling  actually, counselling for those in “long term relationships” of at least three years  is “intrinsically linked with feelings of failure and defeat”.

The Italian journalist Sandro Magister looks at who goes to church in Italy , who doesn’t, and what it means for the future of Italian Catholicism.